Category: Endpoint Protection

Beginning with December 2017, Microsoft is releasing antimalware platform updates for Windows Defender each month. The platform updates will be published as follows: category: Definition Updates, product: Windows Defender. If you use a Configuration Manager automatic deployment rule (ADR) to approve and deploy definition updates for Windows Defender, that same ADR will now pick up…

We are proud to announce that the current branch of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (version 1610) now supports macOS Sierra (version 10.12) with version 5.0.8466.1 or later of the Configuration Manager Mac client. You can download the latest Mac client for Configuration Manager here. For details on how to upgrade the Configuration Manager Mac…

We have a new KB article that describes a problem where the Endpoint Protection view v_GS_AntimalwareHealthStatus reports an incorrect Endpoint Definition status based on the AntivirusSignatureUpdateDateTime value in versions of Microsoft Configuration Manager that are older than version 1511. This problem prevents some of the information typically found in state messages for Endpoint Protection from…